Freedom Writers Foundation

Many people say that a person’s Hebrew name is her true essence and that if a person’s name is biblical, she has a piece of that person’s neshamah in her. My Hebrew name is Miriam, deriving from Moshe Rabeinu’s sister. During the Jewish Exodus from Egypt the Jewish nation had reached the Red Sea and were seemingly trapped by water in front of them as a horde of enraged Egyptians hunted down the fugitives. The only person who had enough faith to continue on with the journey was Nachshon ben…

Freedom Writers: Sociological Issues There are many films out in the industry that focus on detailing the works of everyday life. Those whose main message is to give us a more forward understanding in the society we as a nation live in. After going through a few, I narrowed it down to one film in particular that touches on many sociological issues we face every day to this day. Freedom Writers, a film influenced on true events, was released in January of 2007 under the production companies of…

The youthful generation’s minds fluctuate with the ideas of success and achievement. Many find themselves in difficult situations that hinder them from believing that success can be found in the palm of their hands. The movie, Freedom Writers, provides an inspiration view into the lives of troubled high school students fighting for success and for survival. The motivational movie should be presented as part of the curriculum of Slippery Rock’s Critical Writing course. The film exhibits ideas of…

regard to racism and discrimination. The movie, Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese depicts how the color of a person 's skin can often define a person. Racism can exist between all races and is not simply Whites against Blacks or vice versa. Freedom Writers is a story that shows the hate and fear that can exist between people based solely on their race or ethnicity and how when stripped of the barriers that appear to separate us,…

Have you ever had a recurring symbol in your life? Well Melinda Sordino has one and that is the tree.In Laurie Halse Anderson’s speak, she uses a tree to symbolize growth. The tree allows her to be creative. It represents her emotions and relationships. And connects to her self improvement and mental health. Like a tree's leaves grow so do her emotions.Her emotions fluctuate from highs to lows throughout the story. When Melinda is in her home, she is depressed because her family fights often…

Freedom writers main focus is based on a young white female teacher that goes to a school that is having problems with students that have a big diversity from each other from different lifestyles down to their color of their skin but through out time things start to work out better as each student finds out that they aint so different after all. The intended message from the movie is basically no matter where you come from we a have similar problems in our lives that we face each day and we…

1960’s during the civil rights movement. It is about a smart, southern girl named Skeeter, who everyone just so happen to adore. She just returned from college and decided to move back home in Mississippi. Skeeter then decides to be a writer. Not just any writer, but a writer that interviews black women who have spent their whole lives taking care of prominent southern families. She starts of with one lady named Aibileen, who opens up to her about the hard times and things she has been through…

In the movie Freedom Writers, released on January 5, 2007, many conflicts occur in Long Beach, California (“Freedom Writers”). Freedom Writers was directed by Richard LaGravenese. Erin Gruwell, played by Hilary Swank, is a new teacher to Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and is completely unprepared for the classroom (“Freedom Writers”). Hilary Swank adapts to the students and puts them first with all their problems in life. While trying to gain their respect, she tries to get the students…

Many concepts of socialization are found throughout films which allow these concepts to be further demonstrated and studied. In the film Mean Girls, the main character Cady Heron is an individual who has been home schooled her entire life until her junior year of high school. Her expectations of high school are met with a harsh reality of the underlying social concepts of the other students. Cady is essentially in two different cliques which allows her to have alternate identities, and as a…

Every student in world has a problem that they have to face in life. But, are these issues the same ones that students have to face in the movie Freedom Writers? The students in Freedom Writers have to face life as if they are in a war. Everyday each student walks out of there house wondering if they are going to live. One major problem that the students face is other races hurting them. Each student in that class has a certain group of people that they stay with and those people are their same…